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grass, and clover very good. Upshur: Pastures never better. Cabell : Grass has suf- 
fered very much by drought. Doddridge: All grasses the best for many years. » Swm= 
mers: Pastures very good. 
Kentucky.—Bath.: A failure of. the oat-crop. for. a, few years.past, has caused’ an 
increased area in Hungarian grass. Shelby: Pastures at least one month late. Callo- 
way: Clover excellent, Simpson: Clover, fine as ever known.) Spencer: Pastures: 
have suffered from dry weather. White blossom and white clover, have appeared)in 
great excess in timothy-meadows and clover-fields, and the, hay-crop will be cut very 
short thereby. Gallatin: Clover and spring pastures, have suffered, from drought. 
Meade: Grass very short, owing to drought... Nicholas |, Pastures and clover short, 
owing to drought. Henry: The. great abundance of the weed, known here.as white: 
blossom has entirely destroyed the timothy, and) clover crops, ..Owen:| Clover and 
pastures reduced 10 per cent, by drought. 
On10.— Trumbull : Grass looks very prosperous, and. pastures. are abundant. 9 Frank- 
lin: A fayorable season for the grasses, Morrow: Pastures are first, rate, and meadows 
that were not frozen out promise fair. . Vinton: Meadows never, looked better. Craw- 
ford: Very flattering prospect for a large hay-crop. , Delaware ;| Pastures never better, 
and clover full average. oss: Fine prospect for clover and timothy. Geauga: The 
grass-crop promises to be the best for years, Sandusky : Good pastures. 
Micuican.— Oakland : Clover willbe too large for proiit... Pastures never better. 
Kalamazoo : Grass looks exceedingly well. Calhoun: Clover is most luxuriant. Lena- 
wee: The weather has been good for grass-crops. , Shiawassee : Pastures, never: better. 
Van Buren: The season favorable for grass and cloyer. Mason: Pastures) look very 
fine. Saint Joseph: The grasses have a very fine start. 
Inpiana.—Nobdle: Clover never much better. Warren: Pastures) jine.The white 
blossom is taking the old meadows. Whitley: Pastures good. Howard : Cloversuftered 
from winter-killing ; pastures fair. Crawford: Suftering very much for want of rain. 
Dearborn: Seriously damaged by drought. through May.. Hamilion: Pastures are 
splendid; old clover badly winter-killed; young, looks well. Lake : The grass-crop: 
very fine. Wells: Clover winter-killed. Switzerland: Pastures are excellent. 
_ ILtinors.— Macoupin: Meadows and pastures are unusually good. ..Clay: Prospect: 
of abundant crops in meadows and pastures. Zazewell: Pastures splendid. \ Gallatin : 
All the grasses look well. Boone; Clover in good order. Clinton: Clover was winter- 
killed. Fayette: All pasturage good. Mason: Clover good, but, pastures short, owing 
to dry weather. Jefferson: Pastures the best for years; clover looks well; all grasses 
are fine.’ Mercer: Pastures and clover fine, but timothy scarce. 
WIsconsiIn.— Waupacca: Clover badly winter-killed.. Dodge: Clover from which a. 
crop of hay was taken last year generally killed; that seeded last year generally good. 
Walworth: Winter-killed. [ 
MINNESOTA.—Séeele:. Grass is unusually good, . Stevens; All wild prairies are) in fine: 
condition. ; 
lowa.— Woodbury: Our pastures are all of native grasses, which never winter-kill. 
Hardin; Pastures yield a big crop, and very nourishing; clover. killed in spots.. 
Marion: Pastures good, and meadows promise a good yield. Jda: More forward than 
common. Appanoose: Pastures very good. Sac; The prairie pasture is very good. 
MtssourL—Platte: Pastures never better.. This spring, the farmers sowed many 
acres of clover, which promise a rich harvest. Pettis; Splendid pastures, Morris: 
Meadows never better. Reynolds: Grass-meadows are fine. 5 
Kansas.—Cowley: Grass. looks fine. Osage: Pastures very fine; many cattle now 
excellent beef. Uherokee: Pastures excellent,. Douglas: Wild grasses look as well as. 
rain and sunshine can make them, : 
CALIFORNIA.—Yuba: Spring pasturage grand, owing to a large amount of early 
rains. There is an increase of alfalfa, the only clover raised here... Santa Clara: The 
hay-crop a little more than average, with a heavy percentage of the old crop on hand. 
Sonoma: Better than for twenty years; dairymen are reaping arich harvest. Kern: 
Have finished cutting the first crop of alfalfa. Mendocino: A very fine prospect for 
hay, which the farmers are now busy in cutting. Stanislaus: About ten times more 
hay has been cut in this county than ever before. Amador: There is a constant 
increase in the acreage of alfalfa. The several crops cut in a year amount, in some 
instances, to nine tons per acre; usually to five or six. It makes very nutritious hay. 
Butte: The condition of pastures and alfalfa is all that could. be desired... Napa: The 
reported increase of alfalfa, 10 per cent., is probably an underestimate. Our pasture 
_ grows during the winter and early spring. It becomes dry by the first of June, but 
retains its nutritiousness, and may properly be called “ natural hay.” 
OREGON.—Columbia : Pastures never better. 
CoLorapo.—El Paso: Pasturage superabundant, and stock of all kinds have done 
exceedingly well, except that they have suffered from the hard storm, May 23. 
Daxora.—Davison : Pastures are looking well... Buffalo; No vain in three months, 
and as a consequence, poor pasturage, 
WasHINGTON.— Walla-Walla: The grass and hay crops are very fine. Whitman: 
The native pasturage is unusually fine, and all kinds of stock are doing finely. 
